Process of making vizors for caps.



J. MACKEY.

PROCESS OF MAKING VIZORS FOR CAPS.

APPLIOATION FILED DEO. 30, 100G.

ne: NoRRI PETERS co., WASHINGTON, n cv JOHN MACKEY, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

PROCESS OF MAKING VIZORS FOR CAPS.

Application filed December 30, 1908.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented .Tune 29, 1909.

Serial No. 470,005.

lo all whom t 'may concern:

Be it known that l, JOHN Mixoknr, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing in New York, in the borough of h'lanhattan, county andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Iniprovements inProcesses of Making Vizors for Caps, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improved vizors which are made of a singlepiece of leather or other material pressed into shape and japanned atboth sides.

Heretofore vizors were made from a japanned face-layer, a lining of thinleather, and a japanned binding which was stitched around the edges ofthe same. rl`his vizor was too expensive and was superseded by a vizorwhich was made of stout leather that was pressed into shape and japannedat its face-side in one color and at the under-side in a differentcolor.

The object of this invention is to simplify and cheapen the .manufactureof the onepiece japanned vizor; and for this purpose the inventionconsists of a process of making japanned vizors according to thefollowing successive steps: first, soaking the blank in water forrendering it pliable; second, pressing the same between suitable dies soas to produce the ridges at the upper and lower edges of the same andsimultaneously the grain at the under-side; third, hardening the blankby subjecting it to a baking operation; fourth, applying aplurality ofjapanning coats to the face-side of the blank and to the under-side; andfinally putting a finishing coat of oil varnish on the j apannedsurfaces, as will appear from the following description and claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure represents a flat blank from whichmy improved vizor is made, Fig. 2 shows the blank on a larger scale asit appears after being pressed into suitable shape by the dies, Fig. 3is a rear-view of the vizor after it has been japanned, Fig. 1l is afront-view of the vizor after the apan is applied thereto, and Figs. la,2a and la are respectively vertical transverse sections on lines l, l,2, 2 and 4e, 4, of Figs. l, 2 and 4C, Fig. la being drawn on a largerscale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout theseveral figures.

ln carrying out the improved process, a

blank 7) of the required shape and size and thickness is cut fromso-called grain russet split leather. The grain at the under-side of theblank receives the impression of the lines in imitation of the skiverlined vizors heretofore in use. The edges of the blanks are beveled, asshown at b1.

lVhen the blanks are cut out, they are soaked in water so as to renderthem pliable. '.lhey are then subjected in moist state to the action ofdies in a power-press, by which the ridges or beads d, (Z, that extendalong the upper edge and the lower edge are pressed in. as shown inFigs. 2 and 2a. Simultaneously the intersecting lines or grain arepressed in the under-side of the blank by the dies, as shown in Fig. 3.The blanks are then baked so as to render them hard and firm. Theface-side is then coated with five or six coats of spirit varnish, ofblack or other color according to the color to be given to the vizor,while the other side is coated with three coats of spiritl varnish, ofgreen or other color. The apanned coating is finally polished with oilvarnish at the face-side and under-side. The finished vizor is shown inFigs. 3, 4 and et, reference character e denoting the japanned undersurface, and f the outer surface, which is more highly glazed.

Leather vizors are used for military and other caps which have to standa great deal of wear. For boys caps the blank is made not of leather,but of pasteboard of suitable thickness, or other suitable material,which is preferably treated by a suitable size before being subjected tothe pressure of the dies.

By the process described a neatly finished vizor is obtained. Thesevizors are made of one piece, have a high finish and can be furnished ata considerably lower price than the viZors heretofore made.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

l. The process herein described of making vizors, which embodies thefollowing steps: soakino' a blank of suitable material t0 make itpliable, molding the blank and forming beads at the edges by means ofdies, and then baking the blank to harden it.

2. The process herein described of making vizors for caps, whichconsists of the following successive steps: first, softening the blankby soaking it in water; second, subjecting the blank to the pressure ofdies so as JOHN MACKIE Y.

to produce the ridges on the saine and the grain at the under-side ofthe blank; third, japanning the face and under-sides, and finallypolishing the saine.

3. The process herein described of making` vizors for caps, whichconsists of the folloW- i ing successive Steps: irst softening the blankby soaking it in Water; Second, Subl jecting the blank to the pressureof dies So as I to produce the ridges on the saine and the grain at theunder-Side of the blank; third,

Witnesses N. E. VERNER, GEORGE L. KELLOGG.

